In looking info the electricity consumption our our race boat, I turned my attention to the cabin lights.
There are two cabin lights on port and starboard that look nice and function as they should:
However, each of these fixtures have 3 incandescent festoon bulbs in them that each use 2 amps of current! Several of the bulbs were burnt out, and the ones that worked got hot to the touch.
So you turn a cabin light on at night, and get blinded by white light drawing 6amps from the battery!
Looked into getting LED festoon bulbs, but they were $29 each. Ended up ordering some replacement LED fixtures from the local chandlery for $60 each.
Phil and I used heat shrink crimps to put them in.
They turned out great!
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| white light |
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| red light |
Now the fixtures only draw like 0.04 amps when on.
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